Example sentences of "he would [adv] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also the Leader of the Opposition who said that if he were to abandon socialism he would not be worth voting for . |
| 2 | She could not tell whether he also meant he would not be at the flat long , only long enough to collect his bag and take a taxi to whichever friend 's spare room he had negotiated to borrow . |
| 3 | It was Balvinder Singh who one day in late January suddenly announced , quite unprompted , that he would not be on duty on Sunday as he and his father Punjab Singh were going to watch what he called a ‘ bird challenge ’ . |
| 4 | ( He would not be among strangers ; among those preceding him at that limbo for disgraced generals were the unfortunate Bapst , de Bonneval and Chretien . ) |
| 5 | He would not be in at all if she could stand it . |
| 6 | Moreover , he would not be in the same position as the rest of us to cotton on to their use . |
| 7 | But er Your Worships the matter was adjourned by your colleagues until today because er Mr did indicate on the application form that er he would not be in fact operating the bar himself but that it would be somebody else . |
| 8 | He joined her to say he would not be in the office that morning , a contact in the city had an exclusive story for him and they had arranged a meeting . |
| 9 | Vice-captain Ashley Metcalfe arrived at the ground only to be told by skipper Martyn Moxon that he would not be in the side against Somerset . |
| 10 | But they made it clear they hoped he would soon be on his way to the United States . |
| 11 | Oh yes and that 's those only that would do it but you would n't get the ordinary man taking any he would just be on his rounds . |
| 12 | " I 'm not ! " said little Billy , and he determined that when he was old enough , he would n't be at Auntie 's mercy any more . |
| 13 | Henry said that he would n't be at all surprised ; but Lettice need not be afraid as long as she stayed close to him . |
| 14 | His last remark to me was that if there was any jiggery-pokery about candles he would n't be at all surprised if Jefferson did n't have a hand in it . |
| 15 | But no , that did n't make sense , otherwise he would n't be at the hotel … |
| 16 | And he would n't be on his own with the pheasants and shrews and things . |
| 17 | I get up fairly early , as you know , so he would n't be in it more than a few hours . ’ |
| 18 | If they did n't stare at him on TV he would n't be in a position to spend £425,000 on a new house . |
| 19 | Quinn opted to stay behind and train after being told he would n't be in the side or on the bench at St Andrews . |
| 20 | ‘ My horse Alflora was third today and he would n't be in the same street as User Friendly . |
| 21 | In his address he stated that ‘ he would n't be in favour of the pardon , but peace is worth much more ’ ( Independent 1989 ) . |
| 22 | Maybe just a few more seconds and they would have fired him and he would n't be in this position now . |
| 23 | He said that if the people were ready for negotiations , he would n't be against it . |
| 24 | ‘ If the people were ready for negotiations , he would n't be against it . |
| 25 | Once or twice during one of my tutorials with my Polish pupil , Leslie telephoned from Darvel to say that he would shortly be in Edinburgh . |
| 26 | He would routinely be in contact with the office and with , for example , Bruce Kent and Joan Ruddock . |
| 27 | The team member from department A may be team leader ( eg. if A was the Production Department , and its member was able to gain an operational overview of the team 's activities ) : he would then be in a subordinate position in the organisation chart to the Head of Department B but his superior within the project team . |
| 28 | She 'd been so sure he would still be at La Tour Monchauzet — had steeled herself to meet him again — which made his absence a total anticlimax . |
| 29 | He was entitled , I supposed , to his small exploratory excursion around my character ; and if he himself , I thought , had been wholly fulfilled by uniform , he would still be in it . |
| 30 | He would certainly be in no state to drive himself . |